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Compare and contrast European, South American, and North American women. 500 words will be fine.

"Cash grab" could be pretty accurately defined as a totally unnecessary increase in prices without some equal increase in value. Ontarians use this word a lot because this province is packed full of this kind of behavior. "Stockholm Syndrome" is what prevents all the locals from seeing it.

(sic) That's exactly how the cash-grab begins. You can tell your children where you were the day it all fell apart.

I know your answer is tongue-in-cheek, but for the sake of those who actually bend over backwards in true spineless Ontarian fashion, to accommodate any idiotic rule, I shall say the following: At the risk of offending Rob MacLennan with another relevant historical reference, that's like saying...

And exactly what further benefit would you derive from paying to park, which you don't already get now, by not paying to park? Don't fall for this cash grab. Ontario's SO good at suckering in people with this kind of crap.

Their footprints are roughly the same, and I've demonstrated that bicycles can have larger footprints than motorcycles/scooters. So, once again, no, your point is incorrect. Topologically they are the same in almost every way. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topology) So... what else you got?

But me SHOWING that they're meaningless does, which is the case. There's no sense of entitlement, this is just a logical argument. The fact that it works in a place as large and compact as European cities shows that it can work here, too. Would you say that bicycles have a sense of entitlement...

All I'm saying is that cities smaller than Toronto with less space somehow manage to pull this off, so the reasons Toronto has for failure in this regard have to do with its populace and resistance to forward progress, nothing more, certainly nothing real/physical (since all the counter...

Except I have succeeded directly by showing three ***existential examples*** where it functions perfectly. One example of which contains multiple countries within it, so I have given you more than three ***existential examples*** that what you say is untrue, and what I say is exactly true...

Come on, these are weak at best. 1) You have, however, accommodated 7 commuters rather than just one or two, and they've likely used the provided posts to secure their vehicles, which keeps them in a single area. Nobody is forcing bikes to park anywhere, they do so if they need to. And I...

I thought someone would try this angle. No. I didn't say they were equal in *every* way, only for the purposes of parking. Motorcycles/scooters/etc are a superset of the set of Bicycles. This means that whatever property a bicycle can have (in this context), a motorcycle can have, plus some...

Yes, that's called a parking lot. Sidewalks happen not to be as accommodating to vehicles the size of cars, but are accommodating to vehicles the size of bicycles, and motorcycles/scooters, or whatever equivalents, or half-a-dozen-plus-one bicycles just the same. [Edit 1] The city of Melbourne...

Ok, I'll bite this one: If on the sidewalk I park half a dozen plus one bicycles (which now take up more space than one motorcycle/scooter, or whatever equivalent), I don't get a ticket. If on the sidewalk I park one large bicycle that takes up more space than one motorcycle/scooter, or...

Ok, next time I'll use a more obscure reference that requires further wasted time in explanation. You would prefer a Sharia Law reference instead? Maybe a witch trial law from the 1700s? There is a large pool of counterarguments to the "obey the law cause it's the law and get over it" argument...

Excellent point. I'll be sure to pass that along to all the Jews killed in the 1940s Europe by virtue of "the law".

You exemplify what I speak of exactly. Bicycle riders need to understand that they aren't special, too, then, by symmetry.

Occasionally I'll see a motorcycle parked on the sidewalk. Ontarians seem to have this irrational hatred of motor vehicles. Motorcycles (I'm thinking sportbikes, here, not your 600 ton Goldwing) aren't that much larger than bicycles, yet it's illegal to park them on the sidewalk, even if they...

This is terrible. It's the first step in making them not-free. Some day they'll decide "Hey, why don't we install meters here, too!?" and all of a sudden the last reason I would ever have to visit the detestable craphole that Toronto is would be taken away.

I'd say less likely, since it is in very open view of thousands of people and cameras, when compared to, say, a condo parking lot or dark alley.

Just to let you know, lows are expected at 11 C tonight, and 12 C tomorrow night. Late-November weather, anyone? I could swear I heard someone say summer had arrived a bunch of posts above. Maybe I was hallucinating!